Thangbrand the Priest (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Short of stature, large of limb, Burly face and russet beard, All the women stared at him, When in Iceland ...
Short of stature, large of limb, Burly face and russet beard, All the women stared at him, When in Iceland ...
When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To ...
This pleasant tale is like a little copse: The honied lines so freshly interlace, To keep the reader in so ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
DEVOUTEST of my Sunday friends, The patient Organ-blower bends; I see his figure sink and rise, (Forgive me, Heaven, my ...
O'ER field and plain, in childhood's artless days, Thou sprang'st with me, on many a spring-morn fair. "For such a ...
Humbly, as a servant loving our fellow man sharing our fortune richly doing all we can Called to live meekly ...
I have been thinking, praying too often these last two days the throw-away expletive His counsel, this officer of the ...
The big one went to sleep as to die and dreamed he became a tiny one. So tiny as to ...
The Lady feeds Her little Bird At rarer intervals -- The little Bird would not dissent But meekly recognize The ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone, And the way was laid so certainly, that, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
In early morning twilight, raw and chill, Damp vapours brooding on the barren hill, Through miles of mire in steady ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
UPON 1 a simmer Sunday morn When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff ...
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when ...
Composed, by Special Request, 18th June 1890 Then Pilate, the Roman Governor, took Jesus and scourged Him, And the soldiers ...
Lo, I have loved thee long, long have I yearned and entreated! Tell me how I may win thee, tell ...
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride, How meekly she bless'd her humble lot, When the stranger, William, had made her ...
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never, Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly thou ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
In long gone years a fox and crane Were bound in friendship's golden chain; Whene'er they met, the fox would ...
On this thy natal day permit a friend - A brother - with thy joys his own to blend: In ...
I Ere-while of Musick, and Ethereal mirth, Wherwith the stage of Ayr and Earth did ring, And joyous news of ...
XIV When Faith and Love which parted from thee never, Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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